These song-driven movies, honestly, tick me off because they tease us with some orchestral stuff in the movie (I would only pay attention if it was actually good music, aside from accompanying the movie), and yet on the soundtrack they are nowhere to be found, like Scream 2.

Movies like Big Daddy, Never Been Kissed, and others like them are exactly what I am talking about. These movies --excuse the term--SUCK anyway, so sometimes I think that having orchestral music in them is like a waste of the composer's talent. I don't know about the rest of you, but that's just how I feel.

So maybe I didn't answer your question about HOW the scores sound in movies like Detroit Rock City or Big Daddy, but to me, the movie itself detracts me from paying any attention to the score because the music supervisiors don't see it as marketable...so they don't respect it anyway.

Of course, there are exceptions, with movies that come out with soundtracks that includes a suite from the composer combining the score with the songs, notably in Good Will Hunting, City of Angels, Patch Adams, Simon Birch, and other dramatic movies such as them. But because they were included, we never see a score release separate from the soundtrack. Pleasantville was the only one in my recent memory that did (Thank God)